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I am Tikur

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For too long, we Ethiopians have forsaken our blackness. We splintered ourselves from Africa and stood alone at the precipice of isolation as we insolently rebuffed our African brothers and refused to be proud of our black skin. We divorced our culture from black; a people who once were adored and loved as the essence of black hope visited onto our souls the enmity of the African diaspora by insisting that we were not black. Generation after generation of our forefathers set us back, they passed on to their children a deep seeded bias by denying our black souls and injecting in our menfes (spirits) the ways of nefarious Western thinking by having the paucity to believe that we were “different” and that we had more in common with ferenjis than we had with our black brothers and sisters. That ends today, our once warped thinking and our disbelief in our blackness is being buried in the black ether, aided and abetted by a transformational singer and a visionary cinematographer. The transformational singer is none other than Teddy Afro. … [read more]

28 thoughts on “I am Tikur

  1. I think these kinds of discussions took place in 1998 or 1999. You seem to be a little too slow for the party.

    I wonder what your agenda is in writing these pointless essays. Yes you are black and you are Ethiopian writing in an Ethiopian forum declaring you are black. The funny part is, as has always been the case in these types of discussions SINCE 1998, is that people like you always project your problem as if it belongs to “all habesha.”

    You probably did not feel you were black, it certainly was not the case for yours truly, mr Mamo here.

    Moral of story, stop talking about “We.” Try to talk about “I”, then all your problems will go away. I really feel sorry for you sometimes though, since you seem to have good ideas but all that is burried because you are deeply confused and frustrated.

  2. Dear Teddy:

    This bias is every where in this world. It is not confined to ethiopia only. I live in south africa and generally i see that light skinned south african blacks ( i say blacks my dear friend) feel that they are far superior than their darker counterpart blacks. This skin tone relativity theory of superiority continues ad infinitum every where in this world. You see it in India where light tone is adored, in other African countries and every where in this world. This sentiment is reinforced by the technological prowess of the western society which is exclusively made in white race affair. Every one wants to associate himeself with westerneness. A black a very black charcoal coloured man like me tries to find “a white soul” for himself tries to marry a white woman and get patted by a white man. Do not blame me as i am victim of the norm rather tha the exception. My country men and women say God created the white man almost flawless (Egziabher ferenjochin Tirit adirgo new yefeterachew yilalu). But Ethiopia is a symbol of independence. If you are an ethiopian you do not have to go any where to search for a place or a proof where a black man can achieve his own independence, build his own church and mosque. Other black nations took the ethiopian flag as a symbol of independence. The ras teferians take Ethiopia to be synonimous with black indepndence. Saying this, however, i do not mean that we should not appreciate and emulate the western civilisation. In fact we have to respectfully adapt and adopt this good part of the western civilisation and culture. That is what the Asians are doing. On a different note i liked the picture of Tilahin Gesesse, a unique, phenominal, outstanding singer (i dare say) of all time. Tilahun once persistently encouraged and professionally helped a dark skin singer named Girma Negash to step on the stage and sing at national theatr. This man has a self-confidence problem,a fear and inferiority complex to come out and sing.He later on abandoned the singing profession and became a sports journalist along with Demissie damte and yinbereberu mitikie in the ethiopian radio. Tilahun was his true friend and one that accampanied him as “Mize” during his weeding in 1964E.C. Your mention of Tilahun is also befitting to this article.

  3. Correction:

    There is no descrpition of soul in terms of colour , race, ethnic, tribe or gender,… The first commentator said black soul? there is no black soul. The second commentator said white soul? there is no white soul. A soul is colourless, raceless, tribeless, … multidimensional and indescribleable, physically unrealizeable human form.

    A human soul has no quality that can be described by colour, height, weight, eye, ear, … etc. We have little knowledge of the form our soul and that even helps to understand the human soul description of every human is the same with no difference.

    Anonymous replies:

    Gezaee
    but were you not telling us Europeans are better than black/Ethiopian.and now you are singing a different tune.or your just spineless? i am just wondering.
    before you can clean other,you have to clean your side of the street fieriest.may be then you can help others clean there side.otherwise that will make you hypocrite.

  4. Much ado about nothing. Sounds like an old car runing out of gas on the way to the mady cattle market. :)

    It does not matter whether some one is black or white. As humans, some blacks are good and concious self respecting individuals and groups. Other black may be not be behaving good, are brutal tyrants and self centered with inhuman characters endlessely producing pain and hell on earth for their fellow blacks.

    When the great black king of kings, the late His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie was sitting leisurely in his majestic palace on the hill and feeding his tiny dog with imported and prime quality beef, thousands of poor Ethiopians were dying like flies from hunger and deseas, tragic events which the same emperor ordered to hide so that the course of nature keep going on.

    To your credit, the emperor and all of his nobilities were suffering from inferiority complex and claiming to establish that they are not blacks but some better race called caucasians/white?

    All this, forgetting the fact that the valuable pigment known as MELANIN that forms the black skin colour is in itself great nature’s greatest gift to humanity for combating and defending the human skin against the violent elements of the suns ultraviolet ray. Melanin helps protect the skin against effects of the sun such as skin cancers and premature aging. On the other hand, Caucasians are the primary victims of skin cancer and premature aging.

    Coming back to the main issue of black versus white in terms of non biological dimensions and to your GREAT GRAND surprise, it was the white British journalist who sneeked in to the areas of mass hunger and mass death and exposed the great tragedy of Ethiopian hunger to the wider world and throuth that helped solve the ongoing tragedies of the time while yor black king of kings was just there to enjor and manage human tragedy.

    And for you sir this might be an unpleasant story to hear because it contradicts your high flying cattle market theory. But you sir may hide from the living truth under your chair located infront of your computer screen but you cannot scape from the truth itself.

    “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
    ~Buddha

    Some of the whites are very humanistic and helpful individuals and communities with abundant sympathy and empathy for all.

    Just focus and remember, you sir, as to where all of the helpless and tyranized black and yellow peoples of the south run for their sweet lives and limbs seeking safety, education, profession, bread and money with which they are able to support themselves as well as their so called black/yellow relatives and friends back home.

    Can neeedy blacks run for their lives and limbs run to other black and yellow lands, other than to the Middle East to be enslaved, raped and often killed with no traces of justice and human rights.

    Similarly even running to the best of your so called magical black land of the South African Republic where refugees and immigrants of all shades, colours, near and far were being slaughtered indiscriminately and or burned alive just for being refugees and immigrants running away from brutal killer tyrants.

    At the same time, the black leader of that same country was only changing wives like t-shirts as if there is nothing more important than enjoying non stop sex over indulgence. I would not wish the same for you unless you insist! :)

    Last but not least, who is currently grabbing black fertile green farm land areas (green gold) from under your shaking feet even including your own feet, whites or black and yellow none white Asians? You be the judge! :)

    To me your self evident declaration “I am Tikur” does not make any sense, as if it is the only single virtue for the coming sainthood to inherit the kindom of God of the God unless you specifically do some thing significant and something useful for indivividuals, communities and societies however small.

  5. I think we should be care full not to get in to this disease called color.i did not now what black or white was until i cam to America.
    i don’t go to sleep or get up from my sleep thinking whether i am black or White.my identity never was my color it is always been my nationality.never my color.never question my color cos my family my people never have a problem with there color.rather it is the sickness of the west and slavery.i don’t have a problem with my color and it is not my identity. my identity is Ethiopia.when i see a chinese i see a chines,when i see a German i see a Germain,whene i see a japanese i see japanese not color.

    Anonymous replies:

    I agree with you. Color is insignificant to think or worry about. It is a superficial thought. Let’s all be cured from this disease if one have it. If Not-the earth is yours-work harder.

    Ethiopian replies:

    Well said, I believe in the same way, I am Ethiopian, my identity is Ethiopian but my country’s culture can never be compared with the rest of African countries or anywhere as a matter of fact. We are simply, of a great culture and heritage unequaled by any. I deny to share my country’s greatness with others. We re different and great as Ethiopians. Our present position in the world can never represent our past, our current leaders can never represent our great leaders who made my country great and proud. Thank God I am Ethiopian.

  6. #2.Hunde,

    You have lots of balanced ideas but that you think being unable to become a fearless stage lion who should become a professional singer like Girma Negash otherwise one is suffering from inferiority complex is very simplistic and superficial point of view. In the first place not every one is meant for a singing profession whether the person’s feeling is inferior or superior. Every one chooses what feels to be good rewarding regardless of feelings of inferirity, superiority, shyness or extrovert. Why to compare long experienced professional Tilahun with a new guy just testing the tempreture of the water with his figer toes? And why should Girma needs to be a singer like Tilahun in the first place if the occupation is not appealing to him for some personal, social and cultural reasons? Perhaps me and you too are not at all singers not due to inferiority complex but due to several other interior and exterior reasons. I am not only not a singer but also not a pilot, sea captain, medical doctor, nuclear scietist, astronaut, etc.
    And none of have got to do with inferiority complex.

    I do not know as to where you live and what you are doing for a living but in my area and domicile environment I have not seen any one black person rushing to marry white woman and seeking to be patted on the back by whites on the ground of color.

    If black men are attracted to marry a white lady as well as being patted on the back by white men, then it is on the grounds of minds meeting minds, say, socially, chemically, economically, educationally, psychologically, politically, humanistically, as well as congruence of human views and world views. And you only compare one simple variable called “color” to be the ultimate defining factor.

    What do you think when a dumb chest pumping guys and garls from your own locality and ethnic group singing high and loud about the similarities of color and ethnicity lets you down in practice and lets you die of hunger and starvation even when he or she coud help, empower and save your black shape, nor content, but those people you define as white come and give hand even from the end of the world and lift you up from the bottom of the drain. Don’t judge a book by its cover alone but still stay black.

    Gezaee H. replies:

    Blacks are corrupt; but I think it has to do with the cultural, environment, social, than with skin. We should agree whites are civilized at this age. I survived because of whites. I swear this is my own experiences. I enjoy freedom and security now because of white. I did go to many black countries, but they were all hellish, no matter wherever I go, it was the same. Black or African people will make suffer more. We have to admit we blacks have problem which we are not willing to admit? Africa is the richest continent? why we go to Europe or North America which has less resources than we do? why do we go to Arab desert Arab countries to suffer? There is a problem to be honest but we refuse to admit and accept. Why Africans who come to North America or Europe to study never wanted to go back? even if we see the weather, the weather is nicer in Africa? the beaches the best? the trees or forest, wild animals, all the what nature offers are there? why we do not want to go back? you may tell me it is because of political problem? why we do not create a political environment that as good as Europe or North America?

    Why there are no African Hight tech companies? I do not know any single Ethiopian company that manufactures high tech or technology products? why? what happened to the Universities which were supposed to create tech entrepreneurs? Where the human beef of Africa?

    I love white for now. But I am not denying I am black. Black is beauty , health, and strength, but at the same time black is stupid, brutal and unjust. I love white now. But the stereotype of Ethiopians all whites are white or pure, kind, clean heart is not true. There are evil whites too. For instance South African whites are evil, but not all, because of I have the best friends from South Africa. There are good among bads and bads among good ones in every culture and societies. The bads are powerful in Africa and the goods are voiceless and down trodden.

    For now, white is nice; white saved my life and because of white prospering now. Thanks to white for now. They gave freedom, opportunities which I never had in my own country. They are there to help if I am in need. The limit of my prosperity is only my ability.

    Love white so much.

    Reppi replies:

    Gezaee H.

    Have you ever herd of the term house nigger. Think about it. Try reading a little from the writing of the warrior Malcolm X.

    In the eyes of Egziab’her all life is equal. People do what they need to do to survive. Living off of others makes one a parasite. Worshiping another human is called blasphemy.
    Forgetting one’s own history leads to slavery.

  7. #4.Anonymous,

    What has the whole issue of black and white issue garbage chewing festival got to do with the OLF since they did not claim to be whites.

    Your outrage needs to be directed against those blacks who called themselves white jews or descendants of solomon and ruled Ethiopia for over 120 long years and now again miserably lost both the system and whiteness claim to Wayanes who took over the corrupt system as it is and is ruling since the past 20 long years. Olf has never been able to rule its own people not to talk of other peoples whether black, yellow, green or in between. Please don’t divert attention and blame the victims unless you are drooling ass tplf cadre.

    If it were the olf ruling that poor country my impression is that you will be empowered beyond imagination and come out of your centuries of self imposed cycles of wretchedness, beggary, slavery, starvation, and a permanent planetary hopelessness with no light at the end of the tunnel.

    Even the GODS are more than mad at the brutal and corrupt dictators of Ethiopia who have reduced the good people and the good country in to the eternal beggars living on occasional shameful handouts of foreigners or same whites you seem to mock just to attract indian and Chines new imperialist land grabbers, especially olf country.

  8. Teddy Afro, this generation’s Alemayeu Eshete (they look and sound alike), is out with Tikur Sew whose video has leap frogged into higher video/film making for Ethiopians. Credit is due where it belongs and the director/cinematographer, Tamerat Mekonnen and co. at Sabisa Films Production, have done a masterful job. As for the politics of blackness et al, let us drop the dublicity and the fake outrage/cries be real. Many individuals have raised the Tekuret (blackness) issue to simply take advantage of situation for their personal gain. This is the year 2012 not 1920s. Dark-skinned folks have as equal rights if not more in many circumstances. There is Misogyny (the hatred or dislike of women), there is Homophobia and others with legitimate present day issues (women and homosexuals can be subjected to physical abuse in the all over the world); there is Bedelegent/Gefegenet, Tilachagnet, Tenkolegnet, Hod Wedadent, Alemayawinet, Sekaramente, Zefagenet, Senfena, Zerengnet, Gotegnet, Kentunet, Selabinet, Tiqmegenet, Seregenet, Gubognnet, Khat-Kamignet, Tawot-Mamlekgenet, Kehadinent, Zerfia, Ager-Shiategenet, Temkhetgnanet, Gedeyia… not only Miqengenet. Only the Church covers all these issues in unison and effectively addresses them.

  9. Mrs. Unconventional wisdom,

    You are better than any Ethiopian. You can speak good english. You can defraud and delude any government. You had been in U.S for long. You are very very best of the bect in this world. And, by the name of god, please do not tailgate and track me, by selling your pussy-voo-doo stomping on the little shrimp and hate man George. You are killing values of all Ethiopian families here and overseas. By the name of god and please do nor destruct. You are not Gudit. You are mafia bitch.

  10. Before we generalize about the color lines, i think there is an urgent step should be taken first: certain people need to accept themselves as precious gift of alah no matter how thier hearts filled with envy to the max. Let take an example the Eritrean Tgreans locally known ‘dekiarbas’ who used to pretend as much Eritrean as the natives. However, when suddenly they left in droves abandoning caring Eritrea understandably towards the greedy south in the historic year of fortune-1991, to claim thier alleged of affirmative-action-hmbasha, they took no time to wear the Ethiopian flag and declare themseves more Ethiopians than the genuine Ethiopians themseves. They sure seem living in complete state of perpertual identity crises confusion. May god save his beautiful children from the virus diagnosed as miqegnenet. amen&amen!

  11. …The sad thing is instead of acting our dekiarba brothesrs/sisters as ambassadors of peace&love, they are wildly behaving as pimps of choas&poverty in behalf of their sponsors. Their home work involves recruiting more mine sweepers which hopefully would never repeats again. The least can be done is ignoring them while respecting thier decietful freedom speech of expressions. Such despicable elements seriously makes you though hating your proud tukur African skin and instantly throwing you in the arms of frenji trash trailer chic while showering her lovely unsuspecting folks with fake compliments putting future opportunistic intentions in mind. Sad move indeed!

  12. When will you stop writing such racist articles, when will you learn that being proud of the color of your black skin is not different from a white man who takes pride in his whiteness. We are now in a colorless world, the youth are not interested in your petty obsession with your skin.

  13. Gringo 7:

    1. Where did i compare one singer with another in my writing? Where and in which part of my statment? You are reading from an unwritten white sheet of paper not from my writing.
    2. Did i say any thing by way of reasons why Girmal left the singing profession? Non. Nowhere. Not even implied. You are once again off to rather misconstrued sentimental arguments through a strange misreading.
    3. How defintive are you when you say you did not “see” any black person wanyting to marry a white woman? I wish very much honestly it were true. But your assertion is too good to be true. I have a lot of butt-licking story that i can tell you blacks betraying their own races to get the leftover from the white man. But let me just pull one some unpleasant story for you among the many. Back in Ethiopia few years ago, eight ethiopian women employed in a government organisation with certificate, degrees and diplomas ended up in the bed room of an exptaraite (European employee). This disgusting european was playing with the bodies of these eight ethiopians, the detail of which is to disgusting and too graphic to discuss here. Why did they all of them go to his house? Each of them wanted to marry this bad man. They were fighting amongest each other to be his…i do not know wife, girl friend but most likely sex object. Inrestingly some of them have already husbands and boy friends. To make long story short this matter was brought to the attention of the organisation that sent this man and the man was fired after he was told his practices were extremely dishonuourable. Judge for yourself what all this is up to.
    5. Who said black is bad white is good or the other way round. Whites are philantrophic is not necessarily the whole story. Include also racism and exploitation. Blacks are tyrants is also not the whole story there are many blacks who do good to their own black races, doctors soldiers, etc. Judge for your self but do not prejudge.

  14. Gringo #7:

    1. Where did i compare one singer with another in my writing? Where and in which part of my statment? You are reading from an unwritten white sheet of paper not from my writing.
    2. Did i say any thing by way of reasons why Girmal left the singing profession? Non. Nowhere. Not even implied. You are once again off to rather misconstrued sentimental arguments through a strange misreading.
    3. How defintive are you when you say you did not “see” any black person wanyting to marry a white woman? I wish very much honestly it were true. But your assertion is too good to be true. I have a lot of butt-licking story that i can tell you blacks betraying their own races to get the leftover from the white man. But let me just pull one some unpleasant story for you among the many. Back in Ethiopia few years ago, eight ethiopian women employed in a government organisation with certificate, degrees and diplomas ended up in the bed room of an exptaraite (European employee). This disgusting european was playing with the bodies of these eight ethiopians, the detail of which is to disgusting and too graphic to discuss here. Why did they all of them go to his house? Each of them wanted to marry this bad man. They were fighting amongest each other to be his…i do not know wife, girl friend but most likely sex object. Inrestingly some of them have already husbands and boy friends. To make long story short this matter was brought to the attention of the organisation that sent this man and the man was fired after he was told his practices were extremely dishonuourable. Judge for yourself what all this is up to.
    5. Who said black is bad white is good or the other way round. Whites are philantrophic is not necessarily the whole story. Include also racism and exploitation. Blacks are tyrants is also not the whole story there are many blacks who do good to their own black races, doctors soldiers, etc. Judge for your self but do not prejudge.

  15. NOW WE ARE TALKING!!

    Thank you for posting this thread. We, Ethiopians, need to tackle the issue of our identity. The need to do so is now, more than ever, especially for those of us in the Diaspora. Today we are not accepted by our brothers and sisters of the western hemisphere, because we deny our blackness. We are not accepted by the mainstream white population, because we are blacks. We need to smell that Ethiopian black coffee in order to wake up, otherwise we remain nobodies. There is an Ethiopian saying that goes, “wodaje chew bititafit tafit, alebelezya dengay new belew yewereweruhal”

    Good day

    Ezana From Toronto

  16. How the Africans and the West would accept you, while you are not compitable with the very people of Ethiopia ? It you the Habeshas who have said that you the descendants of Solomonic who traces their roots to Judaism our Arabism. That your own problems.

  17. #15.Hunde,

    Of course I appologize if I happen to misunderstand or misintereprate your comment.

    On the other hand, this strong feelings of balck versus White idea of opposing rather than complementing view points can also partly be explained by the palces where people live and keep gathering life experiences. Certainly if you live in places like South Africa where the the majority of black people who own the country have been forcefully enslaved dehumanized and exploited for too long time by a minority of intruder whites using barbaric brute forces alone, the idea of White supremacy both in practice and psychologically may still do its dirty jobs of deamning black identity. Instead of worring what some self serving fake individuals and groups are telling us about ourselves, better focus on knowing facts and own stregths for growing and prospering.

    Contrarywise if you live and work in democratic countries where human rights, justice for all and equality and welfare is being respected you may not so much notice any big and noticable discrimination on the basis of color.

    And then again associating civilizations, inventions and inventions ONLY with whites is in fact just a baseless illusion and simple ignorant propagnada to say the least simply because black people were and are still the fornt runners in inventions, innovations from wide and broad areas.

    The following examples of magnificient black inventers and innovetors are only the tip of the iceberg. This means that we need to study facts and separate them from self serving fictions being told by kuklux clans, neo nazis, tyrants and liers of all colors whether they are in south Africa, India, the USA, Europe, etc. Using our brains is not forbidden rather than trying the brains folk tallers.

    Inventions, innovations and civilizations are good common products of Black, White and yellow and NOT only that one particular color pigment category.

    Bath, Patricia
    A pioneer in the field of ophthalmology, she created a laser-based device to perform cataracts surgery.

    The idea of a blood bank was pioneered by Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950). Dr. Drew was an American medical doctor and surgeon who started the idea of a blood bank and a system for the long term preservation of blood plasma (he found that plasma kept longer than whole blood). His ideas revolutionized the medical profession and saved many, many lives.

    George Washington Carver (1865?-1943) was an American scientist, educator, humanitarian, and former slave. Carver developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans; his discoveries greatly improved the agricultural output and the health of Southern farmers. Before this, the only main crop in the South was cotton. The products that Carver invented included a rubber substitute, adhesives, foodstuffs, dyes, pigments, and many other products.

    The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum. Crum was a Native African American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.

    Sarah E. Goode was a businesswoman and inventor. Goode invented the folding cabinet bed, a space-saver that folded up against the wall into a cabinet. When folded up, it could be used as a desk, complete with compartments for stationery and writing supplies.

    LATIMER, LEWIS H.
    Light Bulb. Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928) was an African-American inventor who was a member of Edison’s research team, which was called “Edison’s Pioneers.” Latimer improved the newly-invented incandescent light bulb by inventing a carbon filament (which he patented in 1881).

    Elijah McCoy (1843 or 1844-1929) was a mechanical engineer and inventor. McCoy’s high-quality industrial inventions (especially his steam engine lubricator) were the basis for the expression “the real McCoy,” meaning the real, authentic, or high-quality invention.

    Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877 – August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman. He was the first person to patent a traffic signal. He also developed the gas mask (and many other inventions). Morgan used his gas mask (patent No. 1,090,936, 1914) to rescue miners who were trapped underground in a noxious mine. Soon after, Morgan was asked to produce gas masks for the US Army.

    Norbert Rillieux (March 17, 1806-October 8, 1894) was an African-American inventor and engineer who invented a device that revolutionized sugar processing. Rillieux’s multiple effect vacuum sugar evaporator (patented in 1864) made the processing of sugar more efficient, faster, and much safer. The resulting sugar was also superior. His apparatus was eventually adopted by sugar processing plants all around the world.

    Banneker, Benjamin
    Developed the first clock built in the United States, studied astronomy and developed an almanac. Helped to create the layout of the building streets and monuments for the Nation’s Capitol – Washington, D.C.

    Bradley, Benjamin
    Created a steam engine powerful enough to drive steam-powered warships.

    Carruthers, George
    Invented methods of measuring and detecting Ultraviolet lights and electromagnetic radiation in space.

    Hawkins, Joseph
    Improved upon gridiron designs to create metal oven racks.

    Jennings, Thomas
    The first Black person to be granted a patent for his “dry-cleaning” process.

    Jones, Fred
    A master inventor, he created numerous devices, from a portable x-ray machine to an automatic movie ticket dispenser to a refrigerated trucking system. His creativeness caused the largest corporations and the United States government to seek his help.

    Montgomery, Ben
    Developed a special propeller which allowed steamboats to navigate in shallow water.

    Reboucas, Andre
    Invented an immersible device which could be projected underwater, the precursor to the torpedo.

    Rillieux, Norbert
    Created the triple evaporation pan system which revolutionized the sugar refining industry.

    Thomas, Valerie
    Developed a device to produce 3-Dimensional optical illusions and effect.

    Thornton, Benjamin
    Created a device that was the precursor to the modern answering machine.

    Alcorn, George
    A pioneer in the field of semiconductor research and and aerospace innovation.

    Mensah, Thomas
    Revolutionized the production of fiber optic materials.

    Williams, Daniel Hale
    Created the method for and accomplished the first successful open heart surgery.

    West, James
    Created the industry standard affordable electric microphone.

    Spikes, Richard
    Invented numerous important devices, from automobile directional signals to an automatic gear shift.

    Purvis, William
    Invented a fountain pen, a bag fastener, a hand stamp and an electric railway device.

    Pelham, Robert
    Invented a tabulating device and a tallying machine for the United States Census Bureau.

    Julian, Percy
    Created flame-retardent substance as well as a synthetic substitute for cortisone.

    Johnson, Lonnie A rocket scientist, who created one of the favorite toys of the 1990’s – the “Super Soaker.”

    Hall, Lloyd
    Revolutionized the world of food preservation and developed numerous processes for eliminating germs and bacteria from foods, utensils and tools.

    Grant, George
    A Harvard-trained dentist, who invented several items, most famous of which was an improved golf tee.

    Emeagwali, Philip
    Created a process for providing massively, scalable processing from networked microprocessors and helped to innovate internet applications.

    Elkins, Thomas
    Created a refrigerated apparatus for keeping perishable foods as well as a chamber commodities.

    Dean, Mark
    Created numerous devices for personal computer architecture and helped revolutionize the computer industry.

    Brooks, Charles
    Developed a truck with brushes to clean debris from city street, the precursor to the modern street-sweeper.

    Blair, Henry
    Invented a seed planter and a corn harvester

    Beard, Andrew
    Created the “Jenny Coupler” which revolutionized the train industry.

    VOILA!

    “Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
    ~Khalil Gibran

  18. #20.Mona,

    Can you explain as to the manners and ways in which the writer is absolutely correct and the others dead wrong, otherwise it is you who is dead wrong more than any one else. Now you seem to think that the forum audience can read your ming!

  19. Abysinian kings never called themselves black. Dont you know that they called themselves Solomönite which is either jew or arab. They only use the black card to get benefit and voice when rejected by whites. It is white truth that they cliam that they are kids from Solomon and Sheba, Minilik I, kkk my people are so funny. I am sure that Solomon was not kushite. Sheba might be kushite but her kingdom shows southern Yemen, probably she is arab too.

    She went to solomon on the back of Camel, there was no Camels in the kushite Aksum, and the red sea was there and she needs boat to cross. We dont read such thing in bible. It is logical to think the ‘Kibre Negist’was just made for orthodox coptic babtized converted kush people which were used by Alxeanderia coptic and a home made war lord to rule others by destroying the kushite kingdom.

    If Teddy is telling us that the dead kings are black, I am ok, Because that is what they are. Though they faked themselves to rule over the kushite Ethiopia. But he must becareful because when both meet in hell I am sure both the dwarf and the lepor king dont take the song about “Tikur Sew. Minilik will punch him with his ‘dush” hand.

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